The trial will initially enroll six patients with end-stage renal disease ... of a pig organ: Towana Looney, a 53-year-old from Alabama who received a United Therapeutics kidney on November ...

United Therapeutics Corp. said Tuesday that its trial will start with six patients with end-stage renal ... of a pig organ transplant. Towana Looney, 53, in November received a pig’s kidney ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the first-ever clinical trials testing pig kidney transplants in people with kidney failure, marking a major step forward in cross-species ...

United Therapeutics will initially include six people with end-stage renal disease in the study ... transplanted a genetically edited pig kidney produced by eGenesis using Crispr gene-editing ...

The trial will initially enroll six patients with end-stage renal ... rates, kidney function, and the risk of zoonotic infections -- diseases that jump from animals to humans. Currently, there is only ...

Cross-species transplantation will now be tested in human clinical trials in the US. (HealthDay News) — The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the first-ever clinical trials ...

United Therapeutics and eGenesis will test genetically modified pig organs on kidney patients Experts say the the trials are promising but raise safety and ethical concerns TUESDAY, Feb. 4 ...